NDLI: The benefits and challenges of using educational game projects in an undergraduate software engineering course

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Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Ludi, Stephanie
Abstract	Devising team projects for an introductory software engineering course can be a challenge for educators. A balance between an engaging project that is complex enough for the team to complete in the timeframe of the course is required. This paper describes the experiences of using an educational game as the team project in a 10-week introductory software engineering course for second-year undergraduates. The motivation for the project and the project itself will be presented. Benefits of using a game project existing, but the challenges of using a game project were perceived to be high by some instructors. The reflection of the experience is meant to help other instructors to find the right fit for a game project in their introductory course.
Starting Page	13
Ending Page	16
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450305785
DOI	10.1145/1984674.1984680
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2011-05-22
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Project Education Software engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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The benefits and challenges of using educational game projects in an undergraduate software engineering course